Qatar 2022: The first ever DRY world cup?

[Gary Leeds]

Qatar is smaller than the Falkland Islands, maybe they should put a bid in next

 

[Spanish Seagulls]

From a guide to Qatari law: Under Islamic law, the crimes that carry defined penalties are murder, apostasy (rejection or desertion of Islam), adultery, fornication, homosexuality and theft. Lesser offences might include debt, usury, alcohol and drug abuse, and use of pornography.

*GULP* There are only 2 of those I'm not guilty of & if a particular idiot doesn't stop annoying me only one, I'm a goner!

Hang on, what is usury anyway?

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Any fans going from Camptowm?
Probably not a good idea.

Have you read Brideshead Revisited ?

 

[Rookie]

balls to the drinking can you imagine the trouble when a few of the countries meet up. the place is tiny and the stadium are proper close together. Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup bid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (can't get on the official site)

 

[Hove Seagull]

*GULP* There are only 2 of those I'm not guilty of & if a particular idiot doesn't stop annoying me only one, I'm a goner!

Hang on, what is usury anyway?

LOL! I think it means charging interest on loans.

 

[Springal]

balls to the drinking can you imagine the trouble when a few of the countries meet up. the place is tiny and the stadium are proper close together. Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup bid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (can't get on the official site)

Yea like all the trouble in South Africa

 

[Rookie]

Yea like all the trouble in South Africa

yep exactly the same scenario well done

 

[Lord Bracknell]

At least the guy who designed all the stadiums in Qatar is from a well-known family of Nazis. The stewarding will be well organised.

 

[hart's shirt]

Drinking laws? I was f***ing PISSFACED for 2 nights when England played out there last year... Irish bar in the Shearton, nightclub in the Ramada with some scottish manager that we blagged for champagne! Brillo

Quite right.

With the world turning up on its doorstep, there's no chance of Qatar being dry - at least not the dry that the expats commonly know out here.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

*GULP* There are only 2 of those I'm not guilty of & if a particular idiot doesn't stop annoying me only one, I'm a goner!

Is this like a guessing game?

 

[Gus Poyet's inner FLAIR]

Who the HELL is going to turn up to watch Slovenia v Paraguay, in Qatar?

Uncle Matevž and Mrs González from over the road?

 

[beorhthelm]

imagine playing football in 120 degrees in July in the Arabian Gulf.

They're not.

Care to explain why not? i've heard of the suggestion they will air condition the stadiums, but im a little sceptical this can actually be done, and if it could, it would require a monumental amount of energy. maybe FIFA dont care for green concerns, but this is a tad out of step with the current trend on the environment.

 

[Rookie]

Care to explain why not? i've heard of the suggestion they will air condition the stadiums, but im a little sceptical this can actually be done, and if it could, it would require a monumental amount of energy. maybe FIFA dont care for green concerns, but this is a tad out of step with the current trend on the environment.

While the stadiums could be cooled down what about the training grounds? Are they going to build 32 or how ever many out door training facilities with air con?

 

[krakatoa]

Qatar, what a joke! Awful, racist country, the hundreds of thousands of Indian workers out there are treated like dirt, banned from the shopping malls and living in ghettoes. Hardly any tourist infrastucture and dreadful traffic problems. And far too hot for football in the summer.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Care to explain why not? i've heard of the suggestion they will air condition the stadiums, but im a little sceptical this can actually be done, and if it could, it would require a monumental amount of energy. maybe FIFA dont care for green concerns, but this is a tad out of step with the current trend on the environment.

Why are you sceptical? They did it in Japan.

And no -it seems they don't care about the carbon footprint. Otherwise they would have given 2018 to us or Spain who have all the stadia ready, rather than Russia who are building 14 new ones...

While the stadiums could be cooled down what about the training grounds? Are they going to build 32 or how ever many out door training facilities with air con?

Who said anything about OUTDOOR?

And far too hot for football in the summer.

zzzzzzzzz.

 

[krakatoa]

Qatar- unsuitable for hosting a world cup in every conceivable respect. The whole thing stinks.

 

[Gully]

Qatar, what a joke! Awful, racist country, the hundreds of thousands of Indian workers out there are treated like dirt, banned from the shopping malls and living in ghettoes. Hardly any tourist infrastucture and dreadful traffic problems. And far too hot for football in the summer.

I went to Qatar in 2004 and would have to say that this isn't far off what I found. I arrived in early July and the temperature on my first day there was a blood boiling 54C, though at night it did drop to the mid-30s...to find out what that is like, turn on your oven, open the door when it has heated up and stand in front of it.

There was alcohol available, but only in the major hotels and rugby club...not in restaurants in town. Other than hanging around in hotels and the shopping mall, or possibly going dune busting for a day, there isn't a whole lot to do. I am guessing that a lot of fans will stay away from Qatar and fly in for games, then depart again, possibly from Saudi Arabia to the south or Iran on the northern side of the Gulf...or maybe not!

Don't get me wrong, my time there was pleasant enough, I was busy with work and as someone who is virtually tee-total the non availability of alcohol wasn't an issue. My only thought is that Qatar will probably be the worst host nation, from a footballing point of view...ever...the population is less than 1.5m and a fair percentage of them aren't even Qataris, so goodness only knows how they will put a team together.

 

[hart's shirt]

I'd imagine solar power might have a part to play in energy provision for air conditioning.

 

[hart's shirt]

I am guessing that a lot of fans will stay away from Qatar and fly in for games, then depart again, possibly from Saudi Arabia to the south or Iran on the northern side of the Gulf...or maybe not!

Don't forget the UAE (which celebrates its 39th National Day today) is only about 40 minutes flight away - both Abu Dhabi and Dubai would be excellent places for fans to stay. There's also Bahrain close by as well.

That said, there's so much expansion going on in Qatar that they'll provide a lot more hotel rooms anyway in the years leading up to the event.

Alternatively you can all crash at mine...

 

[Worthai Seagull]

For the four MILLIONTH time, they have already announced that they are relaxing the drinking laws in the stadia, hotels and fan zones.

Still, carry on...


Mind you, it will still be shit, because they'll be f***ing NO-ONE there.

Who the HELL is going to turn up to watch Slovenia v Paraguay, in Qatar?

You may say for the four millionth time that they are saying they will relax the drinking laws.... your wrong ! The Qataris said they would do it for the Asian Games two years ago...and they didnt. I was there working , and NOTHING changed. Alchohol in public places is banned...its the Muslim law. THAT will never change. You cant even drink water in public, during Ramadan. Alcohol will never be allowed other than in hotel bars at vast cost . Doha is a shithole ...and officially the 'most boring city in the world'.
Football parks with big screens and beer.?... nah